Danny Moran: how much do we love the River Irwell?
On the wall of Liam Spencer’s studio in Rossendale is a painting about three feet square. It shows a weir on the River Irwell...
Fergal Kinney: Mawkish and ill-fitting…is Tib Street’s Captain Tom mural right for the Northern...
In the middle of Winter it’s hard to imagine how the view outside your window will ever be spring again. Moribund, stony ground suddenly...
East Manchester’s Co-op Live Arena “will be will be one of the top five...
A bullish OVG chief executive Tim Leiweke faced an audience of the press for the first time today confident that his East Manchester £165m...
An action-packed programme ahead at The Met this autumn
Once again, The Met has put together an array of entertainment for Autumn and beyond.
This award-winning venue, based in the heart of Bury town...
Danny Moran: how corrupt is Manchester?
Many years ago I paid a visit to the artist Jai Redman at his studio at the old Dunlop factory in Hulme. He was...
Premiers and Partnerships as Manchester Royal Exchange reveals its 2023 Spring summer season
Premieres and partnerships characterise this 2023 Spring/Summer season at the Royal Exchange Theatre.
Artistic Directors Roy Alexander Weise and Bryony Shanahan are working in...
BEGINNING at the Royal Exchange Theatre from February
Royal Exchange Joint Artistic Director Bryony Shanahan opens 2023 with her vision for David Eldridge’s Beginning.
Seen in Manchester for the first time following its hugely successful National Theatre...
Meet the team behind 97, Chorlton’s newest neighbourhood cocktail bar
97 is the latest concept from the team behind popular Northern Quarter cocktail bar Tariff & Dale, and stalwart Chorlton institution, The Lead Station....
Almost Famous reveal they are moving into the vacated Libertine Pub site in Withington
It’s been a short and bumpy ride for Libertine, the Withington pub from the team behind the Northern Quarter’s Cottonopolis and Ancoats’ Edinburgh Castle....
“I knew this trial was her last chance of life”– new hope for children...
Pioneering research in Manchester has shown dramatic results for treating children with high-risk leukaemia (a type of blood cancer), who previously had no hope...